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  • Pro dimidia enim marca ludum experiar, ultra hoc petens, ut si vivus de palaestra evasero, victum a quocumque vestrum recipiam dum vixero: quia, sicut dicitur, “Majorem caritatem nemo habet, quam ut animam suam ponat suis pro amicis.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Better saith he qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae.

    The Essays 2007

  • Etenim passer invenit sibi donum: et turtur nidum sibi, ut ponat pullos suos.

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • On each side of the effigy a kneeling monk of the same Order is reading from a book, opened at Isaiah, li, 3, as may be inferred from the words distinguishable on the page nearest the spectator, the text obviously having been chosen with reference to the ground on which the Priory stands: "Consolabitur ergo Dominus Sion, et consolabitur omnes ruinas ejus: et ponat desertum ejus quasi delicias, et solitudinem ejus quasi hortum Domini."

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

  • Better saith he, 7 qui finem vitæ extremum inter munera ponat naturæ [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature].

    II. Of Death 1909

  • [685] And then we firmely beleve, that the time of refreshing and restitutioun of all things sall cum, [686] in samekle that thir, that fra the beginning have suffered violence, injurie, and wrang, for richteousnes sake, sal inherit that blessed immortalitie promised fra the beginning. [687] ille unus e fratribus tenebit, donec ponat inimicos suos scabellum pedum suorum.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Majorem dilectionem nemo habet, quam ut ponat animam suam pro amicis.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • 'Qui spatium vitae; extremum inter munera ponat,' to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian [1228].

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Pro dimidia enim marca ludum experiar, ultra hoc petens, ut si vivus de palaestra evasero, victum a quocumque vestrum recipiam dum vixero: quia, sicut dicitur, "Majorem caritatem nemo habet, quam ut animam suam ponat suis pro amicis."

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat,' to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian.

    Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767

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